Q: Can Normal Animals In Middle-earth Speak?
ANSWER: Yes, normal animals in Middle-earth can speak. I ran into this discussion while following a chain of comments on social media that led me to Wikipedia. In the article Tolkien’s Moral Dilemma (retrieved on August 10, 2025) there is a table with the designation “Speech and morality of Tolkien’s Middle-earth peoples”. The 6th row of the table […]
https://middle-earth.xenite.org/can-normal-animals-in-middle-earth-speak/
I've been re-watching Peter Jackson's masterful LOTR and Hobbit movies, and I wondered: How big a retainer do you suppose Gandalf was paying the giant eagles?
Bard the bowman, still standing atop the burning tower.
The string of his bow is a very thin wire that I added myself. Because I just can't help myself from adding tiny details.
Hoy he tenido un hermoso encuentro, un encuentro inesperado. Una primera edición de El Hobbit en español, que por supuesto he acogido en mi escasa biblioteca.
Una de esas alegrías que hacen un día memorable.
#Tolkien #ElHobbit #TheHobbit #PrimeraEdición
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Should I watch #RingsOfPower ?
Just finished The Hobbit movies. I don't think I know the lore enough to be mad at it
More views of Bilbo from this diorama.
The scenery is mainly layers of cardboard, cut in harsh shapes, covered with tissue paper/PVA and then textured with plaster.
Q: What Was Gandalf’s Plan For Getting The Ring Into The Fire?
ANSWER: This question has come up a few times in the past 75-ish years. And I received this iteration of it in October 2024:
You’ve probably gotten this one a hundred times, but I was wondering what Gandalf’s plan might have been for getting the Ring into the Fire? I haven’t read past The Treason of Isengard yet (took a side […]
https://middle-earth.xenite.org/what-was-gandalfs-plan-for-getting-the-ring-into-the-fire/
New podcast from the Middle-earth Blog channel on YouTube. This episode features an AI-generated discussion of my article "What Were The Honey-cakes Of The Beornings?"
As I mention in the introduction, the AI hosts mispronounce "Beorn" and "Beornings". They apparently follow the pronunciation in the movies, which is wrong.
#fantasy #middleearth #tolkien #thehobbit #honeycakes #recipe #ai #podcast
Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" Edit Rambling
Real talk, why didn't we get a Samwise Gamgee cooking show called po-tay-toes? Total missed opportunity.
Probably going to delete this, but if you want to hear what kind of music I was working on ten years ago, here's a cover I did of Billy Boyd's The Last Goodbye from The Hobbit soundtrack.
I've been deleting my tracks off of Soundcloud and wanted to share this track one last time, even tho it's kind of cringe-y and I hear all the mistakes. But it's also kind of nice to hear how much I've improved since then.
The Hobbit - Bilbo vs. Smaug art by Pablo Olivera
Gollum, distracted with a caught fish, doesn't notice the hobbit.
More views of the diorama using this pair of Mithril Miniatures.
More blasts from the past up in my parents’ attic. My reading pattern aged 11 or 12. #MemoryLane #StarWars #HanSolo #IndianaJones #HardyBoys #TheHobbit #FinnMacCumhal #DickTurpin #Mastodaoine
Anyone else on here doing Fantasy Hike? I'd like to walk more than I do, so what better way to do that than to walk to Mordor?
As Randall says, "Movies about walking!"
So let's walk.
#ScribesAndMakers 3.6 — Tell us about a book you go back and read over and over. What do you love about it?
(I broke something on my bookshelf just to retrieve these two books, so I hope this post is worth the strife. Crystals and glass went everywhere.)
Let me preface this by saying that I am a huge fan of Tolkien as both a human being and as a writer. My library has an entire section for Tolkien's Legendarium. It's overflowing at this point.
On the left we have my own copy of The Silmarillion, and on the right is my father's. He took that book across the country, while backpacking and later while living in his VW bus. It's special to me. The book, as a whole, was what drew me to writing in the first place. As a child, my dad first read The Hobbit to me before bed, and then The Lord of the Rings after. It was off to the races from that point on. The Lost Tales and The Unfinished Tales followed. When I got my hands on The Silmarillion, it sealed the deal for me. This is a comfort book for me, even though I cry buckets at the myths and tales within. That's okay, though.
It's World Book Day (in the UK)! This is where a lifelong love of reading, and by extension literacy, began... #WorldBookDay #StarWars #TheHobbit #Book #Books
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